ST.One Line. No Apology. Total Detonation. Landman crossed from drama into cultural flashpoint in a single, unforgettable moment. Billy Bob Thornton’s oil tycoon didn’t just insult daytime TV — he lobbed a verbal grenade straight into America’s culture wars, dismissing The View as “a bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching.” No softening. No walk-back. Just a sentence sharp enough to split the room in half. Within minutes, the clip was everywhere. Applause from some. Outrage from others. Endless arguments over whether it was satire, truth-telling, or pure provocation. And that’s the point. This wasn’t shock for shock’s sake. It was Taylor Sheridan doing what he does best: dragging unresolved national tension into the open and daring viewers to sit with it. Landman stopped being just a show about oil, power, and money — it became a mirror people didn’t want held up to them. Love it or hate it, the line landed. And it isn’t going away. 

The View is under fire from the Taylor Sheridan  TV universe.

On the latest episode of Sheridan’s gritty oil prospecting drama Landman, Billy Bob Thornton’s gruff crisis fixer and oil exec Tommy Norris takes a shot at the long-running daytime talk show. Speaking with his estranged father T.L. (Sam Elliott) over the phone, Tommy suggests the bored retiree find some new way of filling his time after moving in with his son.

“I don’t know what to do,” T.L. bemoans. “Well s—, do whatever you want to, read a book or watch TV, watch one of those daytime talk shows, like The View or something.”

T.L. innocently asks, “What’s The View?” prompting Tommy to launch into a casual yet brutal takedown.

“Bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires, [President Donald] Trump, and men, and you, and me, and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about.”

However savage Tommy is in his assessment, he does at least qualify his remarks by calling The View “pretty funny.”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for The View for comment.

Landman is the seventh show the prolific Sheridan has premiered since Yellowstone firstmade waves with its 2018. It may be the latest show to enter the Sheridan-verse, but as yet it bears no direct connection to Yellowstone or its many spinoffs, aside from featuring two cast members who previously appeared on those spinoffs (Michelle Randolph appeared in 1923 and Elliott starred in 1883).

The current cast of The View — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin — have rarely ventured commentary on Sheridan or his TV universe, which tends to portray rugged individualists who at times espouse conservative values. But panelists like Goldberg and Behar comment daily on American conservatism and frequently critique Trump.

In November, the White House slammed Haines, Hostin, and Griffin’s discussion of the files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their many mentions of Trump, calling them “Trump-deranged wackos.”